Jason of Thessalonica

​​​​​​Jason of Thessalonica was one of the Seventy Disciples of the early Christian Church.

Biography
Jason was born in Tarsus, Anatolia to a Greek Jewish family, and he was an early convert to Christianity. He used his home in Thessalonica to give refuge to Saint Paul, Silas, and Saint Timothy, and a Jewish mob stormed his house in search of the missionaries; when they could not be found, the mob brought Jason to the magistrates, who placed him under arrest. He was made to post bail, and Paul later appointed him Bishop of Tarsus. With Sosipater, he travelled to Corfu, where they built a church in honor of Saint Stephen, and they converted several pagans; they were later imprisoned, and they converted seven other prisoners. The King of Corfu had the seven converts burned to death in boiling pitch, and he imprisoned his own daughter when she converted; he then burned the prison, but she remained unharmed, and many people were baptized upon seeing this miracle. The King then had her tied to a tree and killed with arrows. The King attempted to chase fleeing believers to their island base, but he drowned when his boat sank. The new king embraced Christianity and was baptized as "Sebastian", and Sosipater and Jason freely spread the Gospel in Corfu until they died at very old ages.